EL OJO

EL OJO

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

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Editorial:
ANAGRAMA
Materia
INTERES GENERAL
ISBN:
978-84-339-2730-9
Idioma:
Castellano

Una extraña historia situada en el ambiente típico de las primeras novelas de Nabokov, el universo cerrado de la emigración rusa en la Alemania prehitleriana. En medio de esta burguesía ilustrada y expatriada, Smurov, el protagonista de la historia y suicida frustrado, es unas veces espía bolchevique y otras héroe de la guerra civil; enamorado sin fortuna un día y homosexual al día siguiente. De modo que, sobre una base de novela de misterio (en la que sobresalen dos escenas memorables, excelsamente nabokovianas: la del librero Weinstock invocando a los espíritus de Mahoma, César, Pushkin y Lenin, y el desgarrador y sospechoso relato de Smurov acerca de su huida de Rusia), Nabokov constituye una narración que va mucho más lejos, porque el enigma a desvelar es el de una identidad capaz de mudar de color con la misma frecuencia que un camaleón.

Orgía de la confusión, baile de las identidades, celebración del guiño, El ojo es una inquietante y deliciosa novela corta de Nabokov.

«Lo esencial, y lo permanente, reside en el placer de la narración, en la dislocación de las perspectivas, en el movimiento de los personajes, en la calidad de las situaciones» (Miguel García-Posada, ABC).

«Apoteosis del juego de los espejos y las mentiras, fabulación pesimista e irónica y abrumador retrato de los primeros exiliados de la revolución soviética» (El País).

Otros libros del autor

  • THE SONG OF IGOR'S CAMPAIGN
    VLADIMIR NABOKOV
    The author of Lolita translates the celebrated, medieval epic Russian poem about a doomed campaign led by Prince Igor Sviatoslavich the Brave. A chivalric expedition is undertaken in the late twelfth century by a minor prince in the land of Rus’ to defeat, against overwhelming odds, a powerful alliance in a neighboring territory. The anonymous poet who chronicled this adventure...

    $251.00

  • THE MAN FROM THE U.S.S.R.
    VLADIMIR NABOKOV
    Early dramatic works—plus two essays—by the author of Lolita and Pale Fire.   Including The Man from the USSR, The Event, The Pole, and The Grand-dad, this volume collects works for the theater written during Vladimir Nabokov’s émigré years, before his writings in English earned him worldwide fame and made him a seven-time National Book Award finalist. Also included are two of ...

    $229.00

  • SELECTED LETTERS, 1940–1977
    VLADIMIR NABOKOV
    “Wonderful, compulsively readable, delicious” personal correspondences, spanning decades in the life and literary career of the author of Lolita (The Washington Post Book World).   An icon of twentieth-century literature, Vladimir Nabokov was a novelist, poet, and playwright, whose personal life was a fascinating story in itself. This collection of more than four hundred letter...

    $229.00

  • LECTURES ON DON QUIXOTE
    VLADIMIR NABOKOV
    One of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists offers his take on the Spanish classic.   The author of Lolita and Pale Fire was not only a master of fiction but a distinguished literary critic as well. In this collection of lectures, which he delivered at Harvard in the early 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov shares insights based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the seventeenth-ce...

    $229.00

  • LECTURES ON RUSSIAN LITERATURE
    VLADIMIR NABOKOV
    The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Gogol, Gorki, and Chekhov.   In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis f...

    $229.00

  • LECTURES ON LITERATURE
    VLADIMIR NABOKOV
    The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others—with an introduction by John Updike.   In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the b...

    $229.00